ELK Stack Architect
- Idexcel
- 10 - 15 years
- Bengaluru
- 4 months ago
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Job Description
Role & responsibilities
ELK Stack Architect
As an ELK Stack Architect, you will be the technical authority responsible for envisioning, designing, and leading PB-scale Elasticsearch solutions. This role demands ownership across architecture, governance, scalability, and performance of ELK ecosystems running 100s of pipelines and managing multi-PB datasets. You will work closely with leadership, infra, and product teams to define roadmaps, migrate workloads from on-prem to cloud, implement hybrid strategies, and ensure the platform is secure, resilient, and future-proof.
The candidate must be visionary + hands-on: capable of driving architectural decisions, while also diving deep to debug cluster-level issues
Technical Skills (Must-Have Architect Level)
10+ years overall in IT/Data Engineering/Infra, with 8+ years in ELK Stack and distributed systems.
Elasticsearch: Query DSL, templates, data streams, ILM, CCR, snapshots, shard management.
- Pipelines: Logstash, Beats (Filebeat/Metricbeat/Auditbeat), Kafka/Redis/JDBC ingestion, ingest pipelines.
- Visualization: Kibana Spaces, Data Views, dashboards, Canvas, alerting, reporting.
- Security: X-Pack, LDAP/SAML, TLS, RBAC, audit logging, compliance frameworks.
- Infra & DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform/Ansible/Puppet, CI/CD pipelines.
- Cloud/Hybrid: AWS OpenSearch/Elastic Cloud, Azure Elastic, GCP integrations; migration playbooks.
- Performance & Debugging: JVM tuning, Linux internals, disk I/O, HBA/storage, network stack, GC, cluster state recovery.
- Ecosystem: Integrating DBs, APIs, custom apps; working knowledge of monitoring (Grafana/Prometheus/Elastic-native).
Soft Skills
- Architect mindset: ability to balance business needs, scalability, and operational cost.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.
- Excellent communication with both engineers and executives.
- Calm under pressure during critical production incidents.
Preferred Qualifications
- Elastic Certified Architect / Engineer.
- Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, IT, or related.
- Experience leading global-scale Elastic clusters (300+ nodes, PBs of data).
- Exposure to SIEM/APM and advanced ML plugins for predictive analytics.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: IT & Information SecurityRole Category: IT & Information Security - OtherRole: IT & Information Security - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: IdexcelLocation(s): Bengaluru
Keyskills: Kibana Data Engineering ELK architecture Logstash AWS OpenSearch Docker Infra Kafka Elastic Search on-prem Kubernetes
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